As we all know, David McCandless of Information is Beautiful, launched his new book The Visual Miscellaneum. You can read my review here.
David was kind enough to provide a handful of copies to all of you. How to enter? Just leave a comment at the bottom of this post, and then come back on Monday to see if you’re a winner. If leaving a comment isn’t your thing, because it’s just too crazy hard, you can buy it here. It’s well worth it, and would also make an excellent gift.
Good luck!
Update: Winners Announced!
Thanks everyone for participating. It seems that David’s book is quite popular. Congratulations to our three winners who were randomly selected:
If your name is listed above, check your email inbox to claim your prize.
Alright Nathan, it’s just you and me. This a comment and I’m just gonna leave it right here. Now if you happen to come down here and pick this comment, then, well, that would be mighty fine.
Magic! This book would inspire many of our students as it demostrates the powerful of brilliant conceptulization combined with state of the art technology!
Plus, I never met a free early Christmas present that I didn’t like.
Brilliant! Something to read to my wife and our soon-expected son! You can’t start too early when it comes to cultivating an appreciation for beautifully rendered data (plus I imagine he’s quite bored in there!).
Yeah!!! David McCandless!
I see fractals, my favorite.
Hi Nathan
Yes I want the book.
Right now I am at the crossroads of deciding whether minimalist charts are the only way or whether ‘eye candy’ charts have a place in business reporting.
Paresh
The book looks great, and I will buy if I don’t win it!
You know what ? Xmas and my Birthday are the same day… I have less gifts each year, you can help compensate ! Cheers!
Ooh, I want this so bad! That’s what I’m actually DOING at this hour, looking at the books I need to help me (I think I need a standard deviation chart for something I want to show and I think it might be way over my head), and then you post this. Serendipity! Starring John Cusack.
A Comment :-)
Sorry, I just couldn’t resist.
Cool book. You will be commented upon like never before.
gimmie gimmie!
excellent book, I’d love to have a copy
Would love one as well. I’m a thorough follower of information is beautiful!!
I never win anything :-(
comment
Oh the weather outside is frightful,Â
But the Data is so delightful,
And since we’ve no place to go,
Let It Flow! Let It Flow! Let It Flow!
Sorry, quite out of my mind this mornig :-)
It should be a good Christmas present.
Great idea, here’s my comment: I’ll be abck on Monday ;-)
…with a bit of luck this beauty will be mine!
I am interested in
Love that book
I’d love a copy of this book. I’d also like to know why I have to pay £35.31 pounds for it if I buy it on Amzon UK and only $15.78 from Amazon US.
Please, please!
Hi Nathan,
Beauty they say lies in the eyes of the beholder – wanted to test this first-hand. And I promise to share a frank feedback as well :)
Regards,
Kshitij
PS: I’m crazy about infographics as well – So please, please, please let me have a copy!
Just leaving a comment at the bottom of this post.
I’ve read so much about this book – if I don’t win it here, I’ll probably end up buying. Hopefully, I’ll win! Looks great.
If I don’t win, I may have to buy the book.
Yay data
You can call me ‘Comment’
Can’t wait to read it! Any other recommendations?
Beautiful looking book, I’d love to have it on my coffee table :-D
Looks interessting, maybe I wina copy or maybe Sanat will bring a copy ;-)
This has been sitting in my Amazon wishlist for a while now. Definitely want.
My birthday is on Tuesday, gifts accepted ;)
very much a wanted item :)
Well, I’m Dutch. And we Dutchies really like our freebies, probably more than any other nationality. ;-) So Visual Miscellaneum, yes please!
This weekend is the centuries-old traditional Sinterklaas feast here in Amsterdam… A fictonal bishop and his helpers enter homes and leave gifts in children’s shoes… I would very much like to find this book in MY shoe this weekend….
Never really sure what to put in competition comments; Lorem ipsum.
Sure! A free awsome book !
Looks like a good book!
Love this site – carry my laptop around chasing husband and 8-year old most every day to share the love. We’d love the book!
Comment! Comment! Comment!!!!
Would love to have this as a resource for my math students. We have been learning charting. They are 3rd and 4th graders. Get them started early, I say. :)
december baby
would like book
Love this site and would love a free book!!!!!
I’m a poor college student :(
Send me a free book to turn that frown upside down!
Well this is one way to get a lot of comments on your post, I suppose… ;-)
I would love to flip through this for all sorts of project ideas.
Glad it’s over by Monday because this is already on my Christmas list. If I get it I can let everyone know with enough time to cancel payment to Amazon.
How do you keep finding all this interesting stuff? Amazing!
Looks like a great book!
I’d be honoured to have this great book for reference!! It would get lots of use!!
i know my husband will like it
I would love to go over that raimbow figure to discover the gold pot oof pretty visualizations
Many thanks to David McCandless for giving the free copies and thanks to you Nathan.
Yes, I would like a free copy of the book.
Ohhh I wants it. Great eye candy for someone who’s used to dealing with data in gray Access databases all day long.
Nice book — I’d read a free copy and then re-prize it to my students.
This book looks awfully cool!
I love charts.
Is this competition for all over the world or only for US.
Ooh, ooh, ooh! Mister Kotter! Ooh, ooh!
Looks like a nice book.
I will accept from your emporium, as fitting honorarium, the splendid compendium of Visual Miscellaneum, to keep in my condominium, right next to my aquarium, to thwart off all delirium during times of disequilibrium. Surely it is an axiom, felt deep within one’s myocardium, plainly spoke and without idiom, that the text is beyond medium and likely is supra-premium. I therefore pledge to protect it, against the scourge of radium or flooding from the alluvium, in other words, shielded from all pandemonium, throughout the millennium till my day of requiem.
Very Nice.
I’d love a copy.
Seems like a very interesting book! Unfortunately I’m not the funniest person here, but I can tell you that giving me that book will be a good investment for InfoVis since it will boost my productivity/creativity a lot :)
take a chance, win a book? how can i resist.
I am the one in Europe who is getting a copy (even if I have to pay for shipping).
I can feel it.
Yeah, that’d be fun. I’d enjoy one of those.
The only thing more beautiful that Information is Beautiful is a Free copy of the sequel. Thanks for the opportunity!
Sign me up!
In disadvantage because of the time zone (live in Dubai) but avid follower of flowingdata… Would love a copy!
I’d really like this book…
Visualizing trivia? w00t!! Send a copy this direction!
I likeeee
want!
Looks visually gorgeous, as a book on visual communications ought to! Put my name in! I love stuff like this.
I’d love to get my hands on that!
I SEE
Clear
Clever
Concise
Colorful
Chaotic
Creative
Eye Candy
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well done
Cake
Congratulations!
sign me up…
Leaving a comment,
A great book to win.
Will I?
Comment
Every four minutes the odds get worse…
I would love a copy of this beautiful book! :)
“[…] copies of […]”, wow, but I would be happy to receive just one.
Ooooh! This is a reason to put away the iPod…. I could get lost for hours looking at those charts and trying to replicate the concepts using my data (60,000 consumer respondents!) Oh not so randomly, pick me!
Thanks for all you do here, Nathan! Just recently into datavis — and thanks to you getting pulled in all the deeper (and lovin’ it)!
Information is indeed beautiful! Thank you!
I don’t like to leave comments, but I will for a chance to win this book!
Thanks for the opportunity!
That looks like a beautiful book!
Our students compete in the Fed Challenge year after year. They produce 45-50 charts from data. I am sure the entire class would improve their presentation of the data if they have this book of great visual ideas.
What an inspiration. It will build the right skills for today’s data driven jobs.
Love to announce this to all faculty in the school .
Looks awesome.
It’s cold outside. Need bright colors to think of Spring.
I see a lot of free riders like myself!
I’ve been feeding links from here and David’s site to faculty and students for some time. I was planning on recommending the book for the department’s resource room, but wouldn’t say no to a personal copy…
Need some fresh ways of looking at data.
It would be very cool to win a copy of this book. It looks like it’s full of inspiration.
In the last week of writing a thesis. This really cheers me up. Thx!
wants!
First!
oh, i would love to get my grubby paws on a copy. I would wash them first, of course…
Thanks for highlighting David’s work leading up to this book! I’ll have to get a copy one way or another.
Looks great !
Ooooh, I’d love one!
Oooooo – crossing my fingers!!!
This will be a great book to read while I’m feeding my newborn! Maybe he’ll soak up a little knowledge, too?
I love color on my coffee table.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter – and win the book. :)
As someone who is not gifted in either data analysis and display or the graphic arts, but who appreciates both, it’s great to have these kinds of compendiums to stretch the imagination (and to point to when trying to communicate my data visualization ideas to others). Thanks for letting those of us on the fringes of the field know about these resources!
Looks terrific! “Free” would make it even better!
great looking book
Great Visualizations in this book (from what I’ve seen) and from what’s on David’s website.
:( I want one copy! ;)
– @saneef
I like any book with “miscellaneum” in its title!
Wow neat, sign me up!
Thanks FlowingData!
i want it
I want one!
Was waiting for the 40% borders coupon to get it, 100% is a better deal :)
Looks gorgeous. Would love to have one. =)
Cool book!
Free stuff yes awesome!
Can’t wait to hold a copy! Looks absolutely great!
Help! I commented, now I can’t stop getting everyone else’s comments in my emai – I tried to unsubscribe but that didn’t help. This is very inconvenient – how do I stop the madness? If I’d known that would happen I never would have commented.
Pam, probably a bad idea to subscribe to the comments in this post. You were still subscribed, but I just removed you, so you shouldn’t see get anymore – and as a result probably not see this either.
Pick me so I can take it out of my Amazon wish list.
There’s nothing more beautiful than an ingenious flow chart! Can’t wait to win a copy ;)
Wowee zowee!
It is books like this I hope to flip through during boring conference calls instead of entertaining myself by pressing the refresh button on my mail client until it crashes.
Seriously though, it’s amazing what inspirational impact glancing at a sweet graph can be on your crazy visualization problems at work. Just sayin’.
I’m a student of urban planning and public health. I’ve become fascinated with the use of graphics for conveying complicated quant information to citizens. Thanks for providing something exciting, everyday
This book WILL end up on my shelf, somehow.
Looking forward to flipping through this magnificent book! Thanks!
Loving the surge of creative infographics everywhere these days!
Gimme the book!
Thanks for doing this! Looks great.
Please, for once, let me be lucky. Thank you.
Haven’t read the book yet, but I’d love to win a copy. Still lovin’ this website as well!
I like (the possibility of) free stuff.
Thanks — both great websites (flowing data & information is beautiful)!
I would like a shot at the book. I sent a link to the H1N1 post to a coworker who was trying to advise her daughter on the subject.
w00t! free pretties
fingers crossed! Looks great!
Are you planning on visualizing our cheap comments for free infographics books? :)
I will not check ‘Notify me of followup comments via email’
This looks like a great visual resource! I’d love a copy of it!
Mmm… chart porn. I want one.
Fingers crossed!
Yo!
My high school Statistics students would love this book. Happy Holidays to them.
Looks very cool. I can always use more books.
Looks like a great book.
I don’t envy you having to select from this deluge of comments but I’m sure you’ll come up with some fascinating way to analyze them and perhaps come up with a visual representation for us on Monday?
Keep up the good work David McCandless, I can visualise myself really enjoying reading your book.
OK – I am adding my name to the long list already there. Good luck to everyone.
Came to the site a few weeks ago and am finding myself back here pretty often. Thanks for the work and the insights. Would love the book to get even more:)
Wow, great first impression.
Is there a website to test this?
Looks excellent. I might just have to buy it if I don’t win it!
Fun! That would be an excellent coffee table book for statistical graphic design nerds. :)
Let loose the gears of win! I desire this book!
This book is to designers what jingled keys are to infants. Can’t look away.
Absolutely yes please!
On my amazon wish list…
Visualisations we can believe in.
Would love to take a closer look on this book. Cheers!
Please add me to the list. Thanks.
Comment submitted!
No, that’s easy… Here is my comment.
The book is definitely on my want list — so maybe Christmas will come a little early. Regardless I do enjoy your site and have gotten some great links and information. Cheers!
this comment is a winner :7
It looks very cool. Love to read it, but doubt library would get it here in cold Minnesota.
Winning this book would make me a big hit with my girlfriend. She lives for this kind of design work.
the book looks great. i might end up ordering one for me anyway, but i still want one more copy for a gift to my friend studying in this field :-)
The book looks great – I would love to see more. I am an entrepreneurship professor at Babson College. I bring information visualization into the classroom whenever and wherever possible. From this site, the “Rapid Growth of Walmart” is an excellent teaching tool in terms of entrepreneurial growth, strategy, and operations management. I am in the process of designing a course on industry evolution/industry disruption leveraging information visualization as a primary teaching method.
I want, I want
I’d love a copy! This would be a tremendous resource and inspiration for my work with the nonprofit community! Thanks!
OMG I love data, your website is awesome and inspirational
Do want, please!
-aspiring data-luvin journalist
I would love to have a copy of the book!
The perfect gift!
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I hate to have to say it, and I WANT the book too. But that’s damned clever.
I love books of graphics that are cooler than the ones I get to make! Yay!
I’d love a copy, and will review it on ComplexDiagrams.com
Best, Noah
I want the book!
Please add me to the list. Thanks
I want it sooooo much!!!
Love the blog & want the book! I do GIS and this helps me think more broadly about how to present information. Keep it up. : )
Yay!
You’re always doing something to improve readership and interaction, Nathan. Keep up the good work.
Add another data geek to the list…this looks like a great book!
I’d love a copy!
Here’s a comment to win The Visual Miscellaneum
Can I get my hands on this fine compendium?
Oh no, I have not yet purchased this book
Data, graphs, and visualizations everywhere I look
Without Flowing Data where would we be?
Sadly alone on the ever expanding data viz sea
What a great idea Nathan, I love your site
Choose this comment, please do what’s right
Pretty!
will there be a Braille edition?
wow. Can’t wait to get a copy
*prays to the random number generator god*
I just bought your posters for (o.0) full price! I think that means you owe me :).
Good luck to everyone; can’t wait to check out this book!
Talk about eye candy! Possession of this book could replace the necessity to have a tree it is so darn purdy.
One could plot its many uses: replacement holiday tree, educational substitute for cable TV; endless bathroom reading / source of inspiration; best early holiday gift EVER!
I cannot wait to see what this book has to offer from cover to cover.
Totally would love a copy……
how much love do we have to show…I can see there are already a few comments…. ;-)
It truly would be an excellent gift!
Regars from Poland.
free beautiful book? i’m in!
Pick me!
Comment 193!
It’s on my Amazon wish list…
MINE!
Mine! It is mine!
It’s so appropriate: dangling a pretty-picture book for people (like me) who are bad at calculating odds. 1/200 means I still technically have a chance of winning, right?
I’m excited to see the book. As a long time fan of Edward Tufte, Nance Duarte, and Dan Roam I’m always interested in Visual Thinking and Communications. I’m looking forward to seeing your book and gaining insight to apply.
Gimme please. Thanks.
As someone who has just discovered visual information, and absorbing as much as I can on the subject. The way David presents his perspective on the information, while creating flow and narrative within the graphic is both an inspiration and an education.
Visiting informationisbeautiful.net is a daily pleasure, that informs and excites in equal measure.
I would love to have this to use in my applied stats course! Thanks,
Jann
I would really like to win this!
This is my Comment, there are many like it, but this one is mine.
I would like to review the book on my blog. A free lunch is always nice…
Yes, I would most definitely like a book. :D
Ooh. I can’t decide whether this book would be more useful to my career in librarianship or to my passion for art and design. I want it (please).
If I were u, I would give it to me…but that’s me!
oh what a beautiful christmas present this would be. really looking forward to win one of the books.
As a person with a Stats degree, who is diasbled and can no longer work in the field, I would love a copy of this book.
I’m always open to an early holiday gift =)
Oh man, I love Information is Beautiful.
Information is Beautiful is a must have…would love to see The Visual Miscellaneum!
Love the idea of this book.
This is a great looking book. I wonder if, through books like this, we can finally have a shared language to describe the types of visualizations we hope to create…
recently falling in love with this blog.
This book looks wonderful!
Wow, that’s a lot of comments! Looks like a great book!
The book looks excellent cant wait for it to be released in the UK. Also glad to see that The Guardian has picked up on your stuff and showcasing it too.
Information is confirmation that the universe is in formation.
I love his website and would love this book!
Sounds cool!
I like books.
I would love to win a copy of this and it seems I’m not alone. Look at all the comments!
Eye candy + brain candy. It doesn’t get much better than that.
looks great, I’d love to check out a copy!
just a comment to have a chance to win the book :)
I would very much like a copy of this fantastic looking book!
Keep up the good work flowing data.
Awesome pussycat!
I’m hoping for a freebie copy of the book so I can give it away! Er, that is, I reference it so often to friends, coworkers, and students that I’m always wanting more copies. Really endlessly useful to teachers, Mr. McCandless, with such a spectrum of subjects!
Looks like an awesome book
McCandless rocks.
if i win this book i’ll use to to build a colourful and informative house for my pet mouse
Big fan of information is beautiful, great stuff in the Guardian.
Shabba!
Info Beautiful is one of my favorite websites. :)
i’m drunk
This book gives me fuzzy feelings in my night-time areas. I physically cannot wait until it’s released over here in February.
Also, if I ever met David McCandless I’d almost certainly be embarrassingly starstruck. He and his contemporaries produced the games journalism that drove me to want to make a living writing about and producing games.
YES!!! Please hook it up.
i love his work, and would love to have a copy of this. marvellous stuff. thanks for considering and making this possible.
I have been a follower of this blog for the past six months, and it has taught me a lot. Please continue your good work. Wish you all success with your book.
Happy Holidays,
Jay
I know the chance for me to be the winner is not that much
anyway, following up informationisbeatuful always, i’m so eager to have a one :)
Definitely gonna enter – the graphs and charts on that site are beautiful.
ME WANTY
Since I was a photographer in my former life, I thought, “naturally the professors in my new political science PhD program will love that I put eye-catching, thoughtful (and of course accurate) visuals into my papers and presentations.”
Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnope. And I was crushed.
Please, FlowingData, I need this book to keep my spirits up. Academia hates me!
Thanks to you, Nathan, and your network of contacts on Flowing Data for raising the bar for data visualization and promoting great work like “Information is Beautiful” by McCandless. Bravo!
Great addition to my collection!
Would love to have!!
It looks like a very interesting book to add to my classroom. Thanks for the opportunity!
That is a book I wouldn’t mind owning…
always up for inspiration to keep tackling the good fight
Interesting visualizations of odd but somehow connected data? Sounds right up my alley. Thanks for making this available.
Happy Holidays!
Can’t remember ever winning anything in my life, and the number of comments already here mean I’m highly unlikely to win this either, but hey, if you don’t enter, you can’t win!
A colleague and friend purchased The Visual Miscellanium for me two weeks ago (they know me well). Since that time, my 11th and 12th graders can’t put it down, its like the cover draws them in and the graphics completely captivate them. It is a brilliant teaching tool for both the data analysis and the design. Would love to have another copy for my classroom!
For my love of infographics!
It would be great to have a nice visualization from all this commentaries.
(Of course, this comment would be some kind of self reference inside such infographic…)
Me me! Ooh ooh, pick me!
I’d love a copy!
I love data and I love graphs. I would sleep with this book under my pillow at night.
Looks interesting. (Added to wishlist.)
Stunning work.
I need 2 but one will do. The other is for my coworkers that try to force every data presentation situation through Excel’s standard graph and don’t even modify the format of those. Help.
Fantastic work!
sometimes i feel like somebody should create a feature that works as a stand-in for comments like “this is sweet” and “awesome prize hope i win lol.” something like a digital “thumbs up,” or even a simple button you could click just to let the whole motherfucking world know that, hey, “parlie likes this.”
yes please!!!!!!
miscellany!
Book looks amazing
Yes please, I have been very good this year
Would love one!
I love data aggregation as much as the next geek, but this takes it to the next level. Artistic data design :D Wow!
Would love to read this book!
Book looks good, wouldn’t mind blagging a free copy :-)
I like the book :)
do want (very badly)
please
:)
In the spirit of seasonal charity, I hereby undertake to donate the prize, should I be the lucky winner, to the person who leaves the very next comment after this one.
I’d love to win. Information is Beautiful is amazing, and so is Flowing Data :)
p.s. I have two email addresses.
Nice timing, Joshua…
If you can snet a cpoy to Hloalnd, I wluod lvoe to get one!
Nice book. Would like to win it.
In the parlance of the internet, DO WANT! A win would be most appreciated, but if not, buying it is what’s definitely happening.
I enjoy the information is beautiful site a lot. Having these kind of graphics in a book would be nice to have. Thanx in advance. ; )
i never win these contests.
Hello! I’d love to win this beautiful book.
Yay! another great book. I win ;)
Would love a copy of this book, thanks! I recently used the Target map in a school presentation, got rave reviews – and you may get a few more visitors as a result!
yay !
I want a copy too, plizzzzzz :)
kisses from Paris !
Bonjour
un très beau livre que je suis pressée de dévorer :)
Book looks great
To win this nice book
I wrote quite a bad haiku
Data is lovely
Don’t let me win, I’ll need to buy a new coffee table.
Looks like an amazing book!
I could use a little inspiration about now.
Thanks for the contest!
Well here’s a hello from Hong Kong, China! Send a bit of colorful love this way please!!
Pick my name!
Well, data me sideways: this looks fact-tastic!
Lovely site. Looks like a lovely book. Happy Saturday.
really sorry to hear about the printing error with the new book – great book, great blog – and a free copy would be delightful!
Ooooooo what a great giveaway! I lust after this book but poor design student me can’t afford to buy it yet! :)
What a lovely thing to do, thanks
What a great giveaway! Thanks for all of the hard work that goes into your blog!
I just bought my first Tufte book, and I’d love to expand my collection.
Keep up the awesome work!
This book looks very cool. I have all of Tufte’s books and this one looks like a nice companion piece.
Wow! Must have it! I not by winning, then definitely buying :D
btw great site!
The Visual Miscellaneum looks excellent. I can’t wait to own a copy.
information is beautiful is another essential on my blogroll :)
In my library
will sit this tome of beauty
right next to Tufte
It shows how to splice art and science. My kind of eye candy.
This book seems really good.
Something to put on my Xmas shopping list — if I don’t win. Thanks Nathan.
i cant wait for the book to be published in the uk. better title, though. :)
This field gives statisticians and numbers people the opportunity to be artists. This book should be standard reading in stats classes in college.
Ooh, me too.
Looks like a great source of inspiration to transform figures into a piece of art.
I would like to get a some of this material in to my work. Pie charts are getting old.
This regular loser would love to win!
Love the blog.
Nathan, please pick me!
I am in dire need of inspiration for my thesis and my work in the community. I am involved with many social justice orgs that need media to engage the community and educate on issues such as immigration, human trafficking, understanding the economy, and health care. I <3 DATA!
Thanks,
Mo
totally into visualizations … I’m a Dynamic Constellations Facilitator … focusing on anthrophenomonologic expression … love to see it in visualizations!!
Great website, and the book looks like a great read.
Even a blind man like myself* can see this is a beautiful book. Please let me have a copy, if it comes in Braille**.
thanks,
Joe
* – actually not blind
** – actually want the non-Braille version
I want this book :-)
I am French-speaking (from Belgium), but I love this blog: the visualization of data that it offers does not require to be perfectly bilingual! The graphs are very beautiful and frequently tought-breaking. The book really seems to be a must-have, and I should thus buy it (but I would not be opposed to receive a free copy if it is possible! ;-)
Thanks a lot for sharing all this wonderful stuff on the web!
Hope I have chance to win a copy. :)
Wow, great response, the chances are getting low
Couldn’t make a more interesting comment because no graphics is allowed….
still drunk
I’d love to have a copy, saw it in the bookstore but can’t afford one right now. I’m hoping to do my next toastmaster speech on the creative visualization of data.
I noticed this post and would love to enter the drawing!
Please sign me up for a free copy!
Dibs! I dibsed it sooo yeahh it’s kinda mine now…
I’ll be drawing names on Dec 9th if you still want to enter.
The sun breaks the clouds, the snow melts, my heart soars with song, and the holidays are finally here. Thanks, guys.
Ah David, fellow designer and facebook friend. Your work is a hoot and brilliant as well. I tend to skip down the page though. Where did it say who I have to kill to get one of these?
Does the comment have to be insightful or can it just be any comment? If that latter is true, count me in.
Choo Choo Choose Me!
Hoping!
Hmm regarding the spread in this illustration — if the bright yellow rectangles simply contain descriptions of each graphics, why are the descriptions so much more prominent than the graphics?!
And what about the 1+1=3 problem with all the bright columns and rows of white?!
That said — I’d love to win the book. So I can check out the other pages, y’know.
Grovel, grovel, grovel from an OAP, you will make an old man very happy.
Oh, me, please! :)
not drunk anymore but a bit dehydrated
If we could all see the world in such creative, inventive ways, many more problems could be solved.
This book looks really awesome. It seems to me relevant to the emerging notion of visualization as activism, that is infographic communication as a mode of political communication, which I find so incredibly intriguing (and exciting). Advertisers have known for decades that information must be communicated in an engaging and visually compelling way. I am so excited we are finally grasping this fact in other spheres, particularly with regard to important information about the state of the world.
Hmm…yes please!
I’ve creatively used your data visualizations as speaking, reading, writing prompts in teaching ESL. They’re very useful pedagogical tools. The images force my students to use their emergent language skills to conceptualize, explain, interpret, and understand the data in new and different ways.
I’d love to try this book out with younger children, say under 10. Their comments on images and reaction to the multitude of images would be interesting. After all their lives are flooded with such images. How would they react to them in a book format?
I’d love to try this book out with younger children, say under 10 years old. Their comments on images and reaction to the multitude of images would be interesting. After all their lives are flooded with such images. How would they react to them in a book format?
What Steven Kukla said – sung in the best Gilbert & Sullivan rendition possible. Or: please enter me! (and hopefully pick me…)
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a delight for the eyes..
Wohw! What a great book!
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This book indeed looks great and would do a perfect Christmas gift for my girlfriend!
Be sure to read David McCandless blog for some examples of his great data representation.